Can't read text in a readonly TextEditor

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I have my own LookAndFeel class that inherites from public juce::LookAndFeel_V4.

In my constructor I have:

setColourScheme(getLightColourScheme());

setColour(TextEditor::ColourIds::outlineColourId, OUTLINE_COLOUR_ID);
setColour(TextEditor::ColourIds::focusedOutlineColourId, FOCUSED_OUTLINE_COLOUR_ID);
setColour(TextEditor::ColourIds::textColourId, TEXT_COLOUR_ID);

where:
#define OUTLINE_COLOUR_ID Colours::black
#define FOCUSED_OUTLINE_COLOUR_ID Colours::black
#define TEXT_COLOUR_ID Colours::black

My TextEditor is initialized like this:
logOutput.setReadOnly(true);
logOutput.setMultiLine(true);
logOutput.setText(“bla\nblbalb\nbli”);
addAndMakeVisible(logOutput);

And I only manage to see something if I select the text. How can I make it black even that is readonly?

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2

did you apply you’re lookandfeel before setting the text?
otherwise you would have to use applyColourToAllText()

3

Hi, yes, at the beginning of my MainComponent constructor I call first thing:

setLookAndFeel(&ownLookAndFeel);

now I added
logOutput.applyColourToAllText(Colours::black);
logOutput.setReadOnly(true);
logOutput.setMultiLine(true);
logOutput.setText(“bla\nblbalb\nbli”);
addAndMakeVisible(logOutput);

and it works (yey!) but does it mean I have to do that in every single text editor? I thought the LookAndFeel should apply that to all the TextEditors. What’s the point of setting this then?

setColour(TextEditor::ColourIds::textColourId, TEXT_COLOUR_ID);

4

Oh I just found this thread: TextEditor text colour not updated after lookAndFeelChanged()/parent change - #2 by jules

Meaning that thats for the default text but still I don’t understand why if I:

  1. set a lookAndFeel
  2. setText in my TextEditor
    It doesn’t apply the default colour from lookAndFeel.

If I TYPE something new then it’s black as I selected. But the text setted with setText is still white.

5

Ok, me again.

This also works:
//logOutput.applyColourToAllText(Colours::black);
logOutput.setLookAndFeel(&ownLookAndFeel);
logOutput.setReadOnly(true);
logOutput.setMultiLine(true);
logOutput.setText(“bla\nblbalb\nbli”);
addAndMakeVisible(logOutput);

I thought if I set the lookAndFeel for MainComponent, all it’s children would have the same lookAndFeel.

It’s wierd because some of the changes I made in my ownLookAndFeel are being applied even that I didn’t set it in the child component. For example:

setColour(ComboBox::ColourIds::outlineColourId, OUTLINE_COLOUR_ID);

All my comboBoxes took the new colour even that I didn’t apply the lookAndFeel to each of them.

I’m very confused now!

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sorry, had my coffee and realised that I just needed to do

LookAndFeel::setDefaultLookAndFeel (&ownLookAndFeel);

to set the whole lookAndFeel. Doh!

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